# Premna

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Premna serratifolia.jpg
|image_caption = ''[Premna serratifolia](/source/Premna_serratifolia)''
|taxon = Premna
|authority = [L.](/source/Carl_Linnaeus)
|synonyms_ref=<ref name=m/>
|synonyms=*''Scrophularioides'' <small>G.Forst. without description</small>
*''Scobia'' <small>Noronha</small>
*''Solia'' <small>Noronha</small>
*''Holochiloma'' <small>Hochst.</small>
*''Gumira'' <small>Rumph. ex Hassk.</small>
*''Tatea'' <small>F.Muell.</small>
*''Pygmaeopremna'' <small>Merr.</small>
*''Surfacea'' <small>Moldenke</small>
}}

'''''Premna''''' is a genus of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s in the [mint](/source/Mentha) family, [Lamiaceae](/source/Lamiaceae), first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in [Africa](/source/Africa), southern [Asia](/source/Asia), northern [Australia](/source/Australia), and various islands in the [Pacific](/source/Pacific_Islands) and [Indian Ocean](/source/Indian_Ocean)s.<ref name=m>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=164843 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=126690 Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 16 <big>豆腐柴属</big> dou fu chai shu ''Premna'' Linnaeus, Mant. Pl. 154. 1771. ]</ref>

;Species<ref name=m/>
# ''[Premna acuminata](/source/Premna_acuminata)'' <small>[R.Br.](/source/Robert_Brown_(botanist%2C_born_1773))</small> - Australia, New Guinea
# ''[Premna acutata](/source/Premna_acutata)'' <small>W.W.Sm.</small> - southwestern China (Yunnan, Sichuan)
# ''[Premna alba](/source/Premna_alba)'' <small>H.J.Lam</small> - Palau
# ''[Premna ambongensis](/source/Premna_ambongensis)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - [Madagascar](/source/Madagascar)
# ''[Premna amplectens](/source/Premna_amplectens)'' <small>Wall. ex Schauer</small>  - Thailand, Myanmar
# ''[Premna angolensis](/source/Premna_angolensis)'' <small>Gürke</small> - tropical Africa
# ''[Premna angustiflora](/source/Premna_angustiflora)'' <small>H.J.Lam</small> - [Palau](/source/Palau)
# ''[Premna annulata](/source/Premna_annulata)'' <small>H.R.Fletcher</small> - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
# ''[Premna aureolepidota](/source/Premna_aureolepidota)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Madagascar
# ''[Premna balakrishnanii](/source/Premna_balakrishnanii)'' <small>A.Rajendran & P.Daniel</small> - Tamil Nadu
# ''[Premna balansae](/source/Premna_balansae)'' <small>Dop</small> - Vietnam
# ''[Premna barbata](/source/Premna_barbata)'' <small>Wall. ex Schauer</small> - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar
# ''[Premna bengalensis](/source/Premna_bengalensis)'' <small>C.B.Clarke</small> - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Vietnam
# ''[Premna bequaertii](/source/Premna_bequaertii)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Uganda, Rwanda, Zaïre
# ''[Premna bracteata](/source/Premna_bracteata)'' <small>Wall. ex C.B.Clarke</small> - Himalayas, Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Assam, Bhutan, Myanmar
# ''[Premna cambodiana](/source/Premna_cambodiana)'' <small>Dop</small> - Cambodia, Vietnam
# ''[Premna cavaleriei](/source/Premna_cavaleriei)'' <small>H.Lév</small> - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi)
# ''[Premna chevalieri](/source/Premna_chevalieri)'' <small>Dop</small> - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China (Hainan, Yunnan)
# ''[Premna chrysoclada](/source/Premna_chrysoclada)'' <small>(Bojer) Gürke</small> - Kenya, Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau
# ''[Premna collinsae](/source/Premna_collinsae)'' <small>Craib</small> - Thailand
# ''[Premna confinis](/source/Premna_confinis)'' <small>C.Pei & S.L.Chen ex C.Y.Wu</small> - China (Guangxi, Yunnan)
# ''[Premna congolensis](/source/Premna_congolensis)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Zaïre, Angola, Cabinda
# ''[Premna cordifolia](/source/Premna_cordifolia)'' <small>Roxb.</small> - Thailand, Vietnam, Malaya
# ''[Premna coriacea](/source/Premna_coriacea)'' <small>C.B.Clarke</small> - Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, Andaman Islands
# ''[Premna corymbosa](/source/Premna_corymbosa)'' <small>Rottler</small> - India, Sri Lanka, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
# ''[Premna crassa](/source/Premna_crassa)'' <small>Hand.-Mazz.</small> - Vietnam, China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan)
# ''[Premna debiana](/source/Premna_debiana)'' <small>A.Rajendran & P.Daniel</small> - Arunachal Pradesh
# ''[Premna decaryi](/source/Premna_decaryi)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Madagascar
# ''[Premna decurrens](/source/Premna_decurrens)'' <small>H.J.Lam</small> - [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia)
# ''[Premna discolor](/source/Premna_discolor)'' <small>Verdc.</small> - [Kenya](/source/Kenya)
# ''[Premna dubia](/source/Premna_dubia)'' <small>Craib</small> - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
# ''[Premna esculenta](/source/Premna_esculenta)'' <small>Roxb.</small> - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand
# ''[Premna fohaiensis](/source/Premna_fohaiensis)'' <small>C.Pei & S.L.Chen ex C.Y.Wu</small> - China (Yunnan)
# ''[Premna fordii](/source/Premna_fordii)'' <small>Dunn</small> - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan)
# ''[Premna fulva](/source/Premna_fulva)'' <small>Craib</small> - Indochina, [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia), China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan)
# ''[Premna garrettii](/source/Premna_garrettii)'' <small>H.R.Fletcher</small> - Thailand
# ''[Premna glaberrima](/source/Premna_glaberrima)'' <small>Wight</small> - southern India
# ''[Premna glandulosa](/source/Premna_glandulosa)'' <small>Hand.-Mazz.</small> - China (Yunnan)
# ''[Premna gracillima](/source/Premna_gracillima)'' <small>Verdc.</small> - Kenya, Tanzania
# ''[Premna grandifolia](/source/Premna_grandifolia)'' <small>A.D.J. Meeuse</small>, illegitimate name, = ''Premna hutchinsonii'' 
# ''[Premna grossa](/source/Premna_grossa)'' <small>Wall. ex Schauer</small> - Myanmar
# ''[Premna guillauminii](/source/Premna_guillauminii)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - New Caledonia
# ''[Premna hainanensis](/source/Premna_hainanensis)'' <small>Chun & F.C.How</small> - China (Hainan)
# ''[Premna hans-joachimii](/source/Premna_hans-joachimii)'' <small>[Verdc.](/source/Bernard_Verdcourt)</small> - Tanzania
# ''[Premna henryana](/source/Premna_henryana)'' <small>(Hand.-Mazz.) C.Y.Wu</small> - China (Sichuan, Yunnan)
# ''[Premna herbacea](/source/Premna_herbacea)'' <small>Roxb.</small> - Himalayas, Yunnan, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia), New Guinea, northern Australia
# ''[Premna hildebrandtii](/source/Premna_hildebrandtii)'' <small>Gürke</small> - Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
# ''[Premna hispida](/source/Premna_hispida)'' <small>Benth.</small> - West Africa
# ''[Premna humbertii](/source/Premna_humbertii)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Madagascar
# ''[Premna hutchinsonii](/source/Premna_hutchinsonii)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Ivory Coast
# ''[Premna interrupta](/source/Premna_interrupta)'' <small>Wall. ex Schauer</small> - southern China, Himalayas, Indochina
# ''[Premna jalpaiguriana](/source/Premna_jalpaiguriana)'' <small>T.K.Paul</small> - West Bengal
# ''[Premna khasiana](/source/Premna_khasiana)'' <small>C.B.Clarke</small> - Assam, Thailand
# ''[Premna lepidella](/source/Premna_lepidella)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Madagascar
# ''[Premna ligustroides](/source/Premna_ligustroides)'' <small>Hemsl</small> - China (Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan)
# ''[Premna longiacuminata](/source/Premna_longiacuminata)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Madagascar
# ''[Premna longifolia](/source/Premna_longifolia)'' <small>Roxb.</small> - Himalayas
# ''[Premna longipetiolata](/source/Premna_longipetiolata)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Madagascar
# ''[Premna lucens](/source/Premna_lucens)'' <small>A.Chev.</small> - West Africa
# ''[Premna macrophylla](/source/Premna_macrophylla)'' <small>Wall. ex Schauer</small> - Assam, Indochina
# ''[Premna madagascariensis](/source/Premna_madagascariensis)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Madagascar
# ''[Premna mariannarum](/source/Premna_mariannarum)'' <small>Schauer</small> - Mariana Islands
# ''[Premna matadiensis](/source/Premna_matadiensis)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Zaïre, Angola
# ''[Premna maxima](/source/Premna_maxima)'' <small>T.C.E. Fr.</small> - Kenya
# ''[Premna mekongensis](/source/Premna_mekongensis)'' <small>W.W.Sm.</small> - China (Yunnan)
# ''[Premna micrantha](/source/Premna_micrantha)'' <small>Schauer</small> - India, Assam, Bangladesh
# ''[Premna microphylla](/source/Premna_microphylla)'' <small>Turcz.</small> - Japan, Ryukyu Islands, China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang)
# ''[Premna milleflora](/source/Premna_milleflora)'' <small>C.B.Clarke</small> - Assam
# ''[Premna milnei](/source/Premna_milnei)'' <small>Baker</small> - Nigeria, Bioko
# ''[Premna minor](/source/Premna_minor)'' <small>Domin</small> - Queensland
# ''[Premna mollissima](/source/Premna_mollissima)'' <small>Roth</small> - Indian Subcontinent, Yunnan, Indochina, [Philippines](/source/Philippines)
# ''[Premna mooiensis](/source/Premna_mooiensis)'' <small>(H.Pearson) W.Piep</small> - Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa
# ''[Premna mortehanii](/source/Premna_mortehanii)'' <small>De Wild</small> - Zaïre
# ''[Premna mundanthuraiensis](/source/Premna_mundanthuraiensis)'' <small>A.Rajendran & P.Daniel</small> - [Tamil Nadu](/source/Tamil_Nadu)
# ''[Premna neurophylla](/source/Premna_neurophylla)'' <small>Chiov.</small> - [Ethiopia](/source/Ethiopia)
# ''[Premna oblongata](/source/Premna_oblongata)'' <small>Miq.</small> - Indonesia, Philippines
# ''[Premna odorata](/source/Premna_odorata)'' <small>Blanco</small> - - Indian Subcontinent, Yunnan, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, northern Australia; naturalized in Miami-Dade County in Florida<ref>[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Premna%20odorata.png Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map]</ref>
# ''[Premna oligantha](/source/Premna_oligantha)'' <small>C.Y.Wu</small> - China (Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan)
# ''[Premna oligotricha](/source/Premna_oligotricha)'' <small>Baker</small> - Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
# ''[Premna orangeana](/source/Premna_orangeana)'' <small>Capuron</small> - Madagascar
# ''[Premna paisehensis](/source/Premna_paisehensis)'' <small>C.Pei & S.L.Chen</small> - China (Guangxi)
# ''[Premna pallescens](/source/Premna_pallescens)'' <small>Ridl.</small>- Borneo, Indonesia
# ''[Premna parasitica](/source/Premna_parasitica)'' <small>Blume</small> - Indonesia
# ''[Premna parvilimba](/source/Premna_parvilimba)'' <small>C.Pei</small> - China (Yunnan)
# ''[Premna paucinervis](/source/Premna_paucinervis)'' <small>(C.B.Clarke) Gamble</small> - Kerala, Tamil Nadu
# ''[Premna paulobarbata](/source/Premna_paulobarbata)'' <small>H.J.Lam</small> - Mariana Islands
# ''[Premna perplexans](/source/Premna_perplexans)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Madagascar
# ''[Premna perrieri](/source/Premna_perrieri)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Madagascar
# ''[Premna pinguis](/source/Premna_pinguis)'' <small>C.B.Clarke</small> - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Java
# ''[Premna polita](/source/Premna_polita)'' <small>Hiern</small> - Angola
# ''[Premna procumbens](/source/Premna_procumbens)'' <small>Moon</small> - India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
# ''[Premna protrusa](/source/Premna_protrusa)'' <small>[A.C.Sm.](/source/Albert_Charles_Smith) & S.Darwin</small> - Fiji
# ''[Premna puberula](/source/Premna_puberula)'' <small>Pamp.</small> - China (Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan)
# ''[Premna pubescens](/source/Premna_pubescens)'' <small>Blume</small> - [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia), Philippines, Christmas Island
# ''[Premna puerensis](/source/Premna_puerensis)'' <small>Y.Y.Qian</small> - China (Yunnan)
# ''[Premna punduana](/source/Premna_punduana)'' <small>Wall. ex Schauer</small> - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bangladesh
# ''[Premna punicea](/source/Premna_punicea)'' <small>C.Y.Wu</small> - China (Yunnan)
# ''[Premna purpurascens](/source/Premna_purpurascens)'' <small>Thwaites</small> - Sri Lanka
# ''[Premna quadrifolia](/source/Premna_quadrifolia)'' <small>Schumach. & Thonn.</small> - West Africa
# ''[Premna rabakensis](/source/Premna_rabakensis)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Cambodia
# ''[Premna regularis](/source/Premna_regularis)'' <small>H.J.Lam</small> - Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea
# ''[Premna repens](/source/Premna_repens)'' <small>H.R.Fletcher -</small> Thailand
# ''[Premna resinosa](/source/Premna_resinosa)'' <small>(Hochst.) Schauer</small> - East Africa, Arabian Peninsula, India
# ''[Premna richardsiae](/source/Premna_richardsiae)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Tanzania
# ''[Premna rubroglandulosa](/source/Premna_rubroglandulosa)'' <small>C.Y.Wu -</small> China (Yunnan)
# ''[Premna scandens](/source/Premna_scandens)'' <small>Roxb.</small> - China (Yunnan), Himalayas, Andaman Island, Indochina
# ''[Premna schimperi](/source/Premna_schimperi)'' <small>Engl</small> - East Africa
# ''[Premna schliebenii](/source/Premna_schliebenii)'' <small>[Werderm.](/source/Erich_Werdermann)</small> - Tanzania, Mozambique
# ''[Premna scoriarum](/source/Premna_scoriarum)'' <small>W.W.Sm.</small> - Tibet, Yunnan, Myanmar
# ''[Premna senensis](/source/Premna_senensis)'' <small>Klotzsch</small>  - eastern + central Africa
# ''[Premna serrata](/source/Premna_serrata)'' <small>H.R.Fletcher</small> - Thailand
# ''[Premna serratifolia](/source/Premna_serratifolia)'' <small>[L.](/source/Carl_Linnaeus)</small> - widespread in East Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, northern Australia, islands of Pacific + Indian Oceans
# ''[Premna siamensis](/source/Premna_siamensis)'' <small>H.R.Fletcher</small> - Thailand
# ''[Premna stenobotrys](/source/Premna_stenobotrys)'' <small>Merr.</small> - Vietnam
# ''[Premna steppicola](/source/Premna_steppicola)'' <small>Hand.-Mazz.</small> - China (Sichuan, Yunnan)
# †''[Premna sterculiifolia](/source/Premna_sterculiifolia)'' <small>King & Gamble</small> - Malaya but extinct
# ''[Premna straminicaulis](/source/Premna_straminicaulis)'' <small>C.Y.Wu</small> - China (Yunnan)
# ''[Premna subcapitata](/source/Premna_subcapitata)'' <small>Rehder</small> - China (Sichuan, Yunnan)
# ''[Premna sulphurea](/source/Premna_sulphurea)'' <small>(Baker) Gürke</small> - Angola
# ''[Premna sunyiensis](/source/Premna_sunyiensis)'' <small>C.Pei</small> - China (Guangdong)
# ''[Premna szemaoensis](/source/Premna_szemaoensis)'' <small>Pei</small> - China (Yunnan)
# ''[Premna tahitensis](/source/Premna_tahitensis)'' <small>J.Schauer</small> - many islands of the Pacific
# ''[Premna tanganyikensis](/source/Premna_tanganyikensis)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Tanzania, [Mozambique](/source/Mozambique)
# ''[Premna tapintzeana](/source/Premna_tapintzeana)'' <small>Dop</small> - China (Yunnan)
# ''[Premna tenii](/source/Premna_tenii)'' <small>C.Pei</small> - China (Yunnan)
# ''[Premna thorelii](/source/Premna_thorelii)'' <small>Dop</small> - Laos
# ''[Premna thwaitesii](/source/Premna_thwaitesii)'' <small>C.B.Clarke</small>  - Sri Lanka
# ''[Premna tomentosa](/source/Premna_tomentosa)'' <small>Willd.</small> - Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Queensland, Solomon Islands
# ''[Premna trichostoma](/source/Premna_trichostoma)'' <small>Miq.</small> - Southeast Asia, [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia), New Guinea
# ''[Premna urticifolia](/source/Premna_urticifolia)'' <small>Rehder</small> - China (Yunnan)
# ''[Premna velutina](/source/Premna_velutina)'' <small>Gürke</small> - Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique
# ''[Premna venulosa](/source/Premna_venulosa)'' <small>Moldenke</small> - Madagascar
# ''[Premna wightiana](/source/Premna_wightiana)'' <small>Schauer</small> - India, Sri Lanka
# ''[Premna wui](/source/Premna_wui)'' <small>Boufford & B.M.Barthol.</small> - China (Yunnan)
# ''[Premna yunnanensis](/source/Premna_yunnanensis)'' <small>W.W.Sm</small> - China (Sichuan, Yunnan)

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